Community Cleanups

This is your chance to do something proactive to help our waterways! Litter on school grounds, streets and parks often gets washed into creeks. Join a cleanup and be part of the solution!

 

Forsyth County Creek Week Cleanup with Yadkin Riverkeeper

Saturday March 22, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Winston-Salem State University
Anderson Building
Winston-Salem, NC 27107

Come out with Yadkin Riverkeeper for a cleanup of Salem Creek. Gloves, trash bags, and a limited number of trash grabbers will be provided. So, bring your friends and meet us at the Anderson Building parking lot (WSSU campus)!

Please register below!

https://www.yadkinriverkeeper.org/events/2025/3/22/creek-week-cleanup-with-yrk

(2) CLEANUP WITH YADKIN RIVERKEEPER - Albert H. Anderson Jr. Conference Center | Facebook

 

Plirding with Forsyth Audubon Society

Saturday, March 22, 2025
9:00am-10:30am
Newell Massey Greenway, Winston-Salem


Plirding means picking up trash while birding! Is this a good event for you and your family? Do you enjoy walks, observing wildlife, and hate to see it mixed with harmful trash? Then join Forsyth Audubon for this "out and back" bird walk. We will look for birds on the way out and pick up trash on the way back. Binoculars available to borrow. Please bring used plastic grocery bags, gloves, and your curiosity. Parking is available next to the Winston Waterworks Water Park at 3584 Winston Lake Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27105.

(9) Plirding with Forsyth Audubon | Facebook

 

Clemmons Creek Week Cleanup

Saturday, March 22 & Sunday, March 23, 2025

Clemmons is looking for groups of energetic people (homeowner associations, school organizations, scout groups, a group of friends, etc.) who are interested in working together to clean up creeks, streams or roadways in their neighborhoods. You pick the area and time that works best for you. Vests, gloves and trash bags will be provided. Pre-register with the Clemmons Stormwater Department at 336-766-9170 or by emailing eharrison@clemmons.org . Requests will need to be in by 12pm Thursday March 20th. Requests received after 12pm March 20th unfortunately cannot be processed.

(2) Clemmons Creek Week Cleanup March 22 | Facebook

(2) Clemmons Creek Week Cleanup March 23 | Facebook

 

Peters Creek Cleanup in Hanes Park

Saturday March 22, 2025 at 10am-2pm
Hanes Park (meet at the parking Lot)
719 West End Blvd
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

As part of Forsyth County Creek Week join the Central Library for a community creek clean up. We will be collecting trash and recycling from Peters Creek through Hanes Park in downtown Winston-Salem. To register or for more information email darlinvk@forsyth.cc or call 336-703-3020.

(2) Peters Creek Clean Up in Hanes Park | Facebook

 

Supply Pickup - Kernersville Litter Cleanup

Supply pickup 8am - 5pm
509 Michael St
Kernersville, NC 27284

Come by and get your supplies for litter pick up. Let us know your area or we can assign a location. Please register so we have enough safety vests, gloves and trash bags for your group.

Email mmcdowell@toknc.com for supplies and location ideas.

 

The Great American Clean Up in Winston-Salem

Saturday, April 5th 9:00 to noon
Various locations around the City
Contact Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful
kwsb@cityofws.org

Volunteers needed to cleanup parks, build flower beds, and more

Sponsored by Keep Winston Salem Beautiful.

Let’s make Winston-Salem shine before America’s 250th birthday! Join us on the morning of April 5, 2025 as we beautify spaces around our wonderful city in the Greatest American Cleanup, hosted by the nonprofit Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful. Get involved in picking up litter, removing invasive plants, or planting flowers.

Join us at:

Rupert Bell Neighborhood Center - Litter pickup & flower planting
1501 Mount Zion Place, 27101
9 am - noon

Bowen Boulevard Hansel B. Thomas Park - Litter pickup
2070 Bowen Blvd, 27105 
9 am - noon 

Miller Park Community Center - Invasive plant removal & litter pickup
400 Leisure Ln, 27103
10 am - noon 

Sign up to volunteer here:
Register Here 


OR Pickup a cleanup kit from the following recreation centers

*kits must be returned before the center closes at 2 pm, all participants must sign a waiver* 

Miller Park Community Center 
400 Leisure Lane, 27103 
9 am - 2 pm 

Polo Park Community Center
1850 Polo Rd, 27106
9 am - 2 pm 

Hanes Hosiery Community Center
501 Reynolds Blvd, 27105
9 am - 2 pm 

Winston-Salem - Great American Cleanup | Facebook